Micah 7:2

Modern English Version

The godly has perished from the earth, and no one is upright among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; each hunts his brother with a net.

Cross References

Psalm 12:1

Help, Lord, for the godly man comes to an end, for the faithful disappear from the sons of men.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away while no one understands, for the righteous man is taken away from the evil to come.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are found wicked men. They lie in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

1 Samuel 24:11

See, my father! Look at the corner of your robe in my hand. Indeed, I cut off the corner of your robe, but I did not kill you. Observe and see that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I have not sinned against you, but you are lying in wait for my life to take it.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with bloodguilt and Jerusalem with wickedness.

Lamentations 4:18

They tracked our steps so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is as an open sepulcher, they all are mighty men.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright will deliver them.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, but they have fallen into it themselves.   Selah

1 Samuel 26:20

Now do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the Lord. Truly the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea, as when one pursues a partridge in the mountains.”

Psalm 10:9

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor, drawing them into his net.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land burned up, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire; no man shall spare his brother.

Jeremiah 8:6

I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right. No man repented of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece by piece without choosing.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor,

Micah 2:8

But lately My people rise up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly, like men returning from war.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have pity on those who dwell in the land, says the Lord. But I will cause each of them to fall into the hands of his neighbor, even into the hands of his king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver any from their hands.

Psalm 12:2

They speak empty words, each with his own neighbor; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Isaiah 3:5

The people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the youth shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the inferior against the honorable.

Hosea 6:9

As robbers lie in wait for someone, so a company of priests murder on the way to Shechem. They commit a shameful deed.

Acts 24:9

The Jews assented, alleging these things to be true.